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Black Land & Liberation Initiative

Since 2015, MG has been in collaboration with our friends and comrades in The BlackOUT Collective to create long-term movement strategy and concrete interventions towards Black Liberation, Reparations and Land Reform, rooted in ecological justice and the long history of Black self-determination.

The first phase of that collaborative work was the Black Land and Liberation Initiative. BLLI was an 18 month rigorous vision, strategy and training program for Black organizers from around the country grounded in Black liberation and anchored by Black leadership. A cohort of 35 organizers participated in two national retreats, organized regional trainings where they brought in more folks and experimented with land-based direct actions on Reclaim MLK and Juneteenth.

On Juneteenth, 2017, Black-led organizing around the country took direct action under the frame, “40 Acres, 40 Cities, One Day,” to draw the connections between Black Liberation, Reparations, Land Reform and Ecological Justice.

Our aim is to co-create diverse and interdependent strategies that move us away from the current extractive economy which depends on the violent enclosure of land, labor, culture, power, wealth and spirit. At the heart of our analysis is the fundamental right to the resources required for Black people in the US to create their own productive, dignified and sustainable livelihoods through their own free labor and self-governance. Key among those resources is land. We endeavor to co-create strategies for transformation which are grounded in a long-term vision, guided in the resilience, culture, and creativity of ancestry, rooted in sovereignty, and which we can begin putting into place today.

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Our Work

Climate Workers
Climate Workers is a membership organization of rank-and-file workers – union and non-union – and labor organizers that is building a worker-led, grassroots labor movement for climate justice in the Bay Area.

Culture Shift
Using arts and culture together with grassroots organizing to build our creative resistance and radical imagination for our peoples and the planet, building a loud, proud, and beautiful front for climate justice. Current projects include The North Pole web series!

Climate Justice Alliance / Our Power Campaign
The Climate Justice Alliance has launched the national Our Power Campaign to win real solutions to the climate crisis – solutions that will foster quality jobs that meet people’s needs while caring for the natural resources and ecosystems we depend on.

Earth Skills Training Program
A series of interactive, land-based workshops designed to help us restore and manage our relationship to our own work and to the resources that meet our basic needs.

Resources

Building Economy for People & Planet: Half Day WorkshopA half day workshop developed, in collaboration with PODER (SF), for community members and organizations to explore what we mean by economy, its relationship to ecology, and to learn about steps we can take to create a more just, sustainable and participatory economy.